To her astonishment, and to her confusion, she found herself feeling slightly shocked. Then she looked up again.įerrelyn’s mouth fell a little open as she stared. With careful attention she buttered a further area of toast, and added marmalade. Photo Credit: Universal PicturesĪngela regarded her for a moment with thoughtful interest, and nodded slowly. The sort,’ she added, in order that it should be perfectly clear, ‘that happens when a person might be going to have a baby, if you see what I mean.” ‘I think,’ she said, steadily, ‘that mine was rather special kind of being sick. She squashed the opportunity of diverting, forthwith: Now she had taxied on to the runway, Ferrelyn was going through with it. In the act of raising her marmaladed toast, she added: ‘So was I.
‘Oh, indeed,’ said her stepmother, and paused while she helped herself to butter. ‘As a matter of fact, Angela, I was sick this morning.’ By way of introducing the matter gently she said: An inside voice seemed to prompt Ferrelyn: ‘Why not now? After all, it can’t really make much difference when, can it?’ So she took a breath. RELATED: Flesh-Eating Plants Take Over the World in The Day of the TriffidsĪngela seemed uninterested, when one had half-hoped she would ask why. ’I just don’t happen to feel eggy this morning, that’s all.’ ‘Oh, there’s nothing wrong with it,’ Ferrelyn told her. ‘What’s the matter?’ Angela inquired from her end of the table. Slowly, the women of Midwich realize their bodies are hosting extraterrestrial beings capable of powerful collective thought - and that they are all set to give birth on the same day. Its inhabitants rise from the positions they fell in when sleep overtook them, and soon the village is as awake again as it ever was, its residents stiff but otherwise fine. RELATED: 12 Out-of-This-World Alien Invasion Booksīut by the morning of the 28th, the strange spell over Midwich seems to end as abruptly and inexplicably as it began.
Eventually, confused officials reveal that they quarantined the town after all Midwich residents were discovered to be unconscious.
In the brief time they’ve been away, something very strange has happened to the sleepy hamlet, something no one wants to discuss. In John Wyndham’s chilling and understated novel The Midwich Cuckoos-the inspiration behind the cult horror film Village of the Damned-writer Richard Gayford and his wife return from a weekend vacation to learn their town of Midwich has been entirely sealed off by the army.
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